The City of Battle Ground will honor the men and women of the U.S. military who lost their lives in service to the nation in a Memorial Day ceremony at Battle Ground’s Kiwanis Park.
The ceremony will take place at 11 a.m., Monday, May 27, at the Battle Ground Veterans Memorial in Kiwanis Park at 422 SW Second Ave.
The ceremony will include the presentation of the flags by the Battle Ground High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets. The ceremony will also feature performances by Battle Ground High School Band members Logan Gillespie on bagpipes and Rubyee MacPherson playing the trumpet.
The 31 Battle Ground-area men who died in service will be remembered and honored by a reading of their names.
One Battle Ground-area service member, Jack Hanley, was killed-in-action in the “Forgotten War,” the Korean War, on Sept. 1, 1950. Hanley enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves in Clark County, records state. Hanley reached the rank of sergeant and was assigned to the Second Infantry Division as an artillery cannoneer in South Korea. He is buried at the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland.
The 31 men from the area, whose names are engraved on the wall of the Battle Ground Veterans Memorial, are:
World War II
Julius J. Bergman
Otto O. Burgstahler
Edmond H. Condon
Jack O. Freel
Bruce C. Green
Joe J. Pancoska
Elmer E. Pellett
William A. Pelto
Archie C. Peru
Abert E. Sakrison
Paul H. Snider
Sheldon E. Tessendorf
William A. Uskoski
Leonard A. Wallace
Milton E. Winston
Walter G. Wright
Korean War
Jack Hanley
Vietnam War
Raymond E. Carpenter
Daniel B. Cheney
Richard A. Hostikka
Dale R. Lindberg
Alvin L. Lowery
Timothy G. Mattson
Monte V. Thomas
Donald F. Thulin
Global War on Terror — Afghanistan
Bryce D. Howard
Jonah D. McClellan
Andrew J. Shields
Global War on Terror — Iraq
Cedric E. Bruns
Kane M. Funke
Jeremiah J. Johnson
The city of Battle Ground invites the community to remember and honor these fallen servicemen, as well as all members of the U.S. Armed Forces who died in service. Those interested can read about the Battle Ground Veterans Memorial at cityofbg.org/veteransmemorial.
